Favorite Jeans

With an LRV of about 35, Favorite Jeans is a mid tone: it absorbs more light than it reflects, so it reads deeper on a large wall than on the chip. It suits accent walls and well-lit rooms. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Favorite Jeans in other brands

• Silver Skate Dunn-Edwards DE5801 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.0
• Feather River Berger Paints 8T1813 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.1
• Grey Stone Little Greene Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Nostalgia Valspar 4007-6A Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.2
• Blue Horizon Asian Paints 8272 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Winding River KILZ RD140-01 Grayish Blue Very close ΔE 1.3

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Faded Flaxflower Sherwin-Williams 9146 Grayish Blue
• Smoky Azurite Sherwin-Williams 9148 Grayish Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as grayish blue
• Protanopia Reads as grayish blue
• Tritanopia Reads as grayish green
• Achromatopsia Reads as light gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns green
• Neutral, 4000 K Turns light gray
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Favorite Jeans warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -10.1 and a value of -5.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Dunn-Edwards color to Favorite Jeans?

Silver Skate (DE5801), at ΔE 1.0. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Favorite Jeans?

≈ 35. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.